Heartland Blog

The Labor-Capital Summer Fellows participated in their first two Brown Bag Lunches these past three weeks, hosted by Mr. Steve Sleigh, President of Sleigh Strategies, LLC and Co-Chair of the Heartland Governing Board. The Fellowship at Georgetown University (GU) kicked off its second summer with a two-day Orientation at GU on June 4th and 5th, 2018! The Fellowship is managed by a partnership between Heartland Capital Strategies (HCS) and GU’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for L

The Heartland Labor Capital Fellowship at Georgetown University (GU) kicked off its second summer with a two-day Orientation at GU on June 4th and 5th, 2018! The Fellowship is managed by a partnership between Heartland Capital Strategies (HCS) and GU’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor (KI). As you know, the mission of this project is to identify and educate a new generation of capital stewards and responsible investors, and to construct a diverse new

Some 125-150 business, labor, community and diversity leaders attended the Century Foundation Chicago Summit on June 6. Titled "Inclusion and Industry 4.0: Forging a High-Wage Future for Chicagoland!" the summit was the third mid-west city stop and fourth overall event in the High Wage America project of The Century Foundation’s Bernard L. Schwartz Rediscovering Government Initiative. Michael Frerichs, the Treasurer of Illinois, kicked off the event as the Keynote Speaker an

Across the Chicago region, manufacturers are feeling better than they have in years. Orders are increasing, employment is growing and there's an increasing recognition that the quality provided by local precision manufacturers is a better deal than offshoring production. But there's one big hangup: Companies don't have the workers they need to complete manufacturing's renaissance. A new report we co-authored, to be released this week, finds that nearly 1 in 3 workers in manuf

Chicago, like other parts of the nation, is witness to two seemingly contradictory trends: persistently high unemployment in parts of its low-income communities, and thousands of job openings that employers struggle to fill. Could manufacturing be a key to bridging the gap? In a new report, researchers from the Century Foundation and the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Great Cities Institute highlight the opportunity for manufacturers to address their talent needs by tapp